AOC gets the vote out with Twitch live stream

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just got half a million people to watch her play video games on Twitch — and it's how she plans to boost voter turnout…

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00:00Is that is that weird to just call you AOC? No, no, you guys can call me AOC.

00:04Mike Pence can't call me AOC, but you guys can. All right. Okay, let's go.

00:23Make your voting plan because and let me tell you why a voting plan is important

00:28because what we're seeing from data and what we've seen from from past studies and past behavior

00:35is that if you actually sit down and make a plan to vote, people who do that are far,

00:44far likelier to actually get their ballot cast compared to compared to people who just kind of

00:52say, listen, I'll take care of it the day of. I know when Election Day is. I'm just going to

00:55head over there the morning of. So please make sure that you make your plan to vote.

01:00Go to Iwillvote.com and we'll help you find your polling location. We'll help you find

01:07what day you want to vote, how you want to vote, if you want to vote absentee,

01:11etc. We'll get all of that in order for you.

01:15I'm so nervous. But yeah, now that I get it, I mean, now that I said that,

01:33I'm going to get imposter. And then I don't know. And then I tried playing last night

01:38and it takes me so long to be able to kill someone that the other imposter ends up doing

01:45all the work. And then I get busted every time. You all are being very positive in the chat.

01:51Thank you for the affirmations. I'm going to need so much luck.

01:59Are you really going to do this to me, Yvonne?

02:04No, I'm not voting for Alex.

02:06Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. That's my ride or die right there. That's

02:12my ride or die right there. I can't do that. Do it. Sorry, Poki. Oh, no.

02:35Yeah, we want Trump out of office. But you know what? Democrats need to step it up too. And we

02:39need to make sure that we're fighting for a living wage, health care as a human right,

02:43robust climate action in the form of a Green New Deal. Thank you all so, so, so much. I'm so

02:50thrilled. You know, watching you all in chat was so amazing. The positivity was really great.

02:57So I'm hoping I can do this again soon. But this was a total blast. Thank you all so much. Have an

03:04awesome night. Make your plan to vote. And let's go take back our democracy.